Music lovers 'have fish to thank' -- yell in my ear (between 50 to 1,000 hertz, at 90 decibels or above) and I'll follow you anywhere...

For sale: Autopsy saw. Used. Asking price: $250.00

The Jersey Devil of the Pine Barrens

Human genome debugged

Tired: the paperless office -- Wired: the wireless... doh!!

Are you Rapture Ready? It's later than you think -- better keep an eye on the Index.

Americans blamed in Colombia raid on the village of Santo Domingo, on Dec. 13, 1998, that killed 18 civilians.

Tired: MP3Pro -- Wired: Ogg Vorbis

New Online Ads Can't Be Missed

Support the "Genetic Nondiscrimination in Health Insurance and Employment Act," (HR 602/S 318), sponsored by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD).

You're not a true coffee snob unless you roast your own green beans.

New uses for manure: antifreeze, carpet fibers and soda pop bottles. Yum!!

Alcohol + lots of Tylenol = fatal liver damage

Attention New Product Developers: have you hugged your Fringe Population today?

The Strange Tale of the Denial of Service Attacks Against GRC.COM, as only Steve Gibson could tell it. -- "For no good reason whatsoever, Microsoft has equipped Windows 2000 and XP with the ability FOR ANY APPLICATION to generate incredibly malicious Internet traffic, including spoofed source IP's and SYN-flooding full scale Denial of Service (DoS) attacks! [...] malicious hackers are already fully aware of the massive malicious power of the new versions of Windows and are waiting impatiently for the "home version" of Windows XP to arrive in the homes of millions of less clueful end users. [...] When those insecure and maliciously potent Windows XP machines are mated to high-bandwidth Internet connections, we are going to experience an escalation of Internet terrorism the likes of which has never been seen before."

Articles on cryptobox at New Scientist and infoAnarchy.

"Women on Waves has developed a mobile gynecological unit, the 'A-portable'. It can easily be loaded onto a ship, which enables it to travel to wherever it is needed worldwide. The 'A-Portable' can also travel by truck allowing it to go to countries where reproductive health services are legal but largely unavailable, for example due to war. With a ship, Women on Waves can provide contraceptives, information, training, workshops, and safe abortion outside territorial waters in countries where abortion is illegal."

Checking into an Assisted Computing Facility

You can now make donations to Freenet via PayPal.

A CD-ROM of the Cypherpunks Archive is available for "either USD 100 or 10 grams of e-gold".

Forward this article to your congressional reps: To Cut the Carnage in Sudan, Take Action Against Oil Firms. Specifically: Talisman Energy of Canada, PetroChina (owned by the Chinese government) and Lundin Oil of Sweden.

Was Mozart killed by rheumatic fever or by a pork chop gone bad?

Having a little trouble looking your fellow executioners in the eye this morning? Every U.S. citizen has just become an accessory to murder by the State. How can we protest the death penalty now? They could have let McVeigh rot in a Federal prison. That would have been justice. But no -- they had to make him into a martyr. They may as well have hung a sign on every Federal building in the country, saying "Bomb me next!".

Media Monitors Network: "Boston Globe's double-standard: What do you expect from a business?" by Stephen Gowans

All I want for Fathers Day are some new I-Glasses, and maybe a Cye Bot to fetch me drinks.

Searching for that forest among the trees? Visit VisIT.

Selenium deficiency causes flu virus to mutate into more dangerous forms -- "what we found conceivably could be true for any RNA virus -- cold virus, AIDS virus and Ebola virus."

Tired: Purple Dinosaur -- Wired: Purple Elephant (slon?? look it up)

Mickey, Cinderella win right to clean underwear

EFF & Princeton Scientists Sue Record Companies Over Squelched Research

Tired: Code Red -- Wired: HyperMints

Candy Expo Offers Stinky Feet, Sardine Jelly Beans

No women on [Russian] Mars trip -- since they would increase the "probability of conflicts" among the crew. "A female crew member is unlikely, but one of the cosmonauts must certainly be a doctor, both a surgeon and a psychologist, to meet emergencies that might happen during the flight." -- Anatoly Grigoryev, director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. So how about an all female crew?

Tired: Berlitz -- Wired: The Zompist Phrasebook

"Let's put the technical problem in terms that Dubya may understand. Space is very large, George. In fact, it's huge. Surely you saw pool tables in your misspent youth? Replace the balls with the tiniest, edge-of-visibility, specks of whatever white dust you fancy. Scatter a few dozen of them somewhere near the baize. To win, you have to pot all of them - and the white-ball is another speck. You have five minutes. And you have to use computers and they have to run hundred-million-line programs. The Notional Missile Defence initiative is here to help you, George."

"If you have received email from any party claiming to have hacked the SETI@home site, please click here."